TISE Network

Our inspiring and high-value network enriches the academic journey and contributes to honing the students’ path. We are proud to introduce you to our partners and collaborators with whom we worked together up until now.

We are also open to discuss new collaboration ideas.

Associated partners

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Understanding complexity to tackle present and future challenges and build a special place for free thinking, where creativity unfolds and new ideas are born. The Complexity Science Hub Vienna was founded with the vision to become the focal point of complexity science in Europe. The aim is to provide an exciting, creative environment free of bureaucratic constraints for open-minded visionaries who are brave enough to step out of mainstream science. The Hub will be an incubator and playground for radically new ideas. Complexity science links state-of-the-art mathematics, modelling, data and computer science with fundamental questions posed from various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology or social sciences, and opens new paths to a deeper understanding of systemic risks, resilience, efficiency, and the requirements for sustainable innovation and creativity.

EURAC Research

Eurac Research was founded in 1992 as an association under private law with just twelve members of staff undertaking research in the areas of Language and Law, Minorities and Autonomous Regions as well as the Alpine Environment. The center gradually expan​​ded its activities into new areas, attracted scientists from all over the world and introduced new structures. Today, almost 400 scientists from over 25 countries work here.​​ The research addresses the greatest challenges facing us in the future: people need health, energy, well-functioning political and social systems and an intact environment. These are complex questions, and EURAC Research is seeking the answers in the interaction between many different disciplines. In so doing, the research work embraces three major themes: regions fit for living in, diversity as a life-enhancing feature, a healthy society.

The European Communication Institute (ECI)

Increasing uncertainty and the dynamics within human-environment systems characterize the complex challenges the cooperation put at its core. The European Communications Institute’s focus is thus to provide robust guidance for viable, sustainable and resilient social, economic and industrial processes and structures. In order for societies to achieve more resilience to cope sustainably with the challenges ahead and to build simultaneously structures that facilitate change and societal trust, the research community needs to transfer research results appropriately to meet the needs and expectations of citizens regarding the current level of uncertainty and risk awareness. To address societal digital challenges a better understanding of system-linked empowerment mechanisms between scientists, (future) professionals and practitioners is needed. The activities of the ECI are based on the integration of a multidimensional knowledge linking science and society on four pillars: Research, education, dialogue and mutual learning.

Scuola del Design de Politecnico Milano

The School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano is today the largest international university for the training of product, communication, interior and fashion designers, both by number of students and of teaching staff. It is active in the recently built Milan campus. The following figures give some idea of its extent: approx. 5000 students, over 450 teaching staff and a further 400 or so research and teaching assistants working in various capacities. The Politecnico is a place of avant-garde training, a meeting point of different cultures. It links architectural and artistic studies, with their creativity and focus on form, to technical, scientific and engineering studies. The School of Design is characterized by its constant desire to experiment innovative, experimental development lines that respond to the real market needs of contemporary society.
According to “QS Rankin by Subject” the School of Design is 1st in Italy, 2nd in Europe and 5th in the world.

b2b Group

bettertogether GmbH focuses on strategic, creative and socially relevant public relations, event management, internal communication and change communication, top-notch communication and media coaching, crisis communication, organizational development as well as public affairs. The agency currently has approximately 70 clients in the areas of health, infrastructure, environment/energy, social affairs and science from the public and private sector

FEV Consulting

FEV Consulting is the FEV Group’s technology-driven top management consultancy. We act as a guide between strategy development and product realization in today’s global environment. Our deep industry knowledge enables us to create pragmatic solutions to some of the most pressing and complex issues facing today’s enterprises. We do not simply work for companies, but for our customers – people who want to move society forward. That’s why we develop and optimize technical product concepts with our focus on customer benefit, feasibility, sustainability and profitability. 

ZSI (Centre for Social Innovation)

The ZSI (Centre for Social Innovation) is a private, non-profit organisation for innovation research. As an applied social science institute, it contributes to overcoming social challenges by providing scientific findings for decision-making and developing and testing concepts for the implementation of interventions in various political and social areas. Evidence-based support for sustainable and equitable societal transformation is an explicit goal of the institute. ZSI has strong competencies in the areas of empirical social sciences, evaluation, participatory research and dialogue between science and society.

Good Rebel

Good Rebel GmbH is a Vienna based management consulting firm with a strong link to CEE, long international experience & extensive international network. We support our clients in defining their Sales Strategy, Market Intelligence, Business Development, International Expansion & Lead Generation.

Our collaborators

Giovanbattista Tusa Philosopher and video artist based in Lisbon. He is currently a Researcher in Philosophy and Ecology at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he coordinates the research program X-CENTRIC FUTURES.

Isabel Moreno Earth Scientist (PhD of Univ. Grenoble, France) working as Research Assistant at Chacaltaya GAW (Global Atmosphere Watch) station of Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia. Part of ANDEX initiative. Worked on paleo climate (ice cores) at the beginning of my scientific career, currently working on present climate and air quality issues. Part of Ecotambo, a civil association that joins organic producers and responsible consumers.

Piero Barandiarán collaborates in the Structure and Project Management of Huerto Roma Verde and La Cuadra AC where he is an associate, developing and managing productive projects and Bio-Social Economy, as well as community development methodologies based on the Bio-Systemic Paradigm with which he works today in La Cuadra AC and Huerto Roma Verde.
He defines himself as an agriculturist of dreams, since he believes that there should be more people who help to cultivate collective dreams transforming them into real projects for the Common Good.

Other partners

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)